<h3 style="text-align: center;"></h3> <img class="aligncenter wp-image-21838 size-full" src="https://ancient.cybermaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Peter-Shor.png" alt="enormous amount of effort" width="1200" height="800" /> <blockquote>"There was an enormous amount of effort put into fixing the Year 2000 bug. You’ll need an enormous amount of effort to switch to <a href="https://ancient.cybermaterial.com/nist-ir-8105-report-on-post-quantum-cryptography/">post-quantum</a>. If we wait around too long, it will be too late." <strong> Peter Shor - Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) / Discovered <a href="https://ancient.cybermaterial.com/lexicon-shors-algorithm/">Shor's algorithm</a> for prime factorization on quantum computers.</strong></blockquote> Source: <strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03068-9">Nature </a>- Enormous amount of effort put into fixing the Year 2000 bug</strong> <strong>About Peter Shor:</strong> <p style="text-align: justify;">Peter Williston Shor is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT. He is known for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">After being awarded his Ph.D. by MIT, he spent one year as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and then accepted a position at Bell Labs in New Providence, New Jersey. It was there he developed Shor's algorithm, for which he was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize at the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998 and the Gödel Prize in 1999.[16] In 1999 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2017 he received the Dirac Medal of the ICTP and for 2019 the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Shor began his MIT position in 2003. Currently, he is the Henry Adams Morss and Henry Adams Morss, Jr. Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at MIT. He also is affiliated with CSAIL and the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP).</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">He received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech in 2007.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">On October 1, 2011, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to quantum-computing, information theory, and randomized algorithms" He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. In 2020, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering contributions to quantum computation.[citation needed]</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In an interview published in Nature on October 30, 2020, Shor said that he considers post-quantum cryptography to be a solution to the quantum threat, although a lot of engineering effort is required to switch from vulnerable algorithms.</p>